Chandigarh: Against the Early Doubts of his father to take sports traditionally dominated by men to oppose the doctor’s advice to operate on his injured shoulder, Boxer Pooja Rani Bohra has suppressed all the opportunities to make it the first Olympic.
Order the Asian champion, the owner of proud six national titles and the Asian Games bronze, Pooja does not need an introduction.
What made his trip from the Indian boxing cradle at Bhiwani Haryana to Tokyo was even more interesting was his perseverance and determination to rise back stronger.
Fresh from the 5-0 clinical victory over Mavludi Movlonova from Uzbekistan in the 75kg of women for the consecutive Asian championship crown (after an 81kg title in the 2019 edition), followed by a training camp for a month in Italy, Pooja looks set for more battle Hard in front of the Japanese capital.
Pooja’s victory over the Atheyna Bylon world champion in March this year in Boxam’s international tournament in Spain, where he won silver, also testified of the dominant which grew in the middle category but 30-year-old children preferred.
“There is no favorite in any category since the best boxer qualifies for the Olympics.
In my category, there are boxers like Li Qian (China), Tamara Thibaut (Canada), Melissa Naomi Graham (US) and Ariane Fortin (US) and Ariane Fortin (US) Netherlands), who can turn off on their day, “Pooja told TOI during recent interactions.
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The secret of the increase in speed, and sharpness in the technique in recent years, although pandemics affect training and sparring sessions in run-up to Tokyo.
“In the past year or more, I did many sparring sessions with male boxers from various heavy categories, starting from 69kg to 81kg during my stay at IIS.
To match their speed, I have to lift myself and help sharpen my movements.
Also training sessions Abroad in Italy, France and Ireland helped a lot, “he said.
After missing the 2016 Olympic qualification after the second round of the exit at the World Championship, followed by an accident when it exploded Diwali Cracker which made him breastfeeding burning for six months, Pooja admitted that his belief was shaken, more, a work injury that threatened his career when he returned to training , Read AlsooKyo Olympics 2021, Full India Schedule: Events, Date, Time, Equipment, athletes totaling 127 athletes, including two alternative players and one reserve of each goalkeeper on the men and women’s hockey team, in 18 sports categories is part of the Indian Olympic contingent For the Tokyo Olympics who are rescheduled 2020 are scheduled to start July 23.
While Pooja has now passed “the lowest phase”, he admitted that the period helped him analyze his career graph, even when he decided to choose physiotherapy instead of a faster comeback.
In return, he turned to the 81kg category, given the number of lower Indian participants, but it was in the high-performance director of Indian women’s team Raffaele Bergamasco that he returned to the 75kg PET class to find qualifications for the match.
“When I returned after a burning injury and hand, I decided to switch to 81kg because not too many Indians compete in it.
After gold 2019, Raffaele asked me to return to the 75kg category, and try to qualify for Tokyo, and fortunately I guard the faith, “he said.
Raffaele also emitted confidence in his people, saying that he recently gained a lot of lower body strength, which allowed him to change his strategy and adapt to the opponent, making it one of the boxers to be careful in Tokyo.